Changelog

Unreleased

• Changed agent plugin restarts to retry forever by default, with an exponential backoff (restart_backoff, restart_backoff_max) and a reset after a stable run (restart_reset_after). Before, a plugin that failed 3 times in a row stopped for good, so a source outage of more than a few seconds silently ended collection until the agent restarted. restart now also accepts True and False, like crawler configuration.
• Added plugins_alive to each plugin entry in the agent heartbeat. The existing alive count includes the sender process, which hid a dead collector.
• Fixed the kube_logs plugin stalling forever when a container restarted and Kubernetes no longer had the previous container's logs. It now emits a partial collection status that records the gap and continues with the current container.
• Made summary date detection configurable through SIEMATIC_SEARCH["SUMMARY_DATE_FORMATS"].

• Published the initial public alpha of SIEMatic. This release is early and may change without notice; production reliance requires a paid support contract (sales@mcindi.com).

• Reorganized project documentation into overview, quickstart, operations, search and dashboard, developer, reference, history, and changelog sections.

• Added generated search-command, REST API, and scoped Python API references.
• Added CI validation for strict documentation builds and environment-variable reference drift.
• Corrected documentation for cross-database joins, saved-search export/import, the dashboarding/ module, Docker Compose commands, and shared container health checks.

Release-specific entries will be added when versioned releases are published.